(Testimony of Kenneth Lawry Dowe)
Mr. Griffin.
Do you know any of Ruby's employees? Let me sort of run down--Tammi True?
Mr. Hansen.
The stripper. Well, I know them when I see them.
Mr. Griffin.
Do you recall seeing Tammi True on Friday or Saturday before the President was shot?
Mr. Hansen.
Not that I recall.
Mr. Griffin.
How about Little Lynn?
Mr. Hansen.
I don't think on Friday or Saturday that I saw any of the strippers that I would recognize, or if they may have been out on the streets in civilian clothes, but I just noticed them when they were in their act, and they look a little different when they are out dressed up.
Mr. Griffin.
You don't work--you say your day off was Saturday. Did you have occasion to go downtown at all Saturday night?
Mr. Hansen.
I get off--I may have. I may have. Let's see. Saturday night back when the President was assassinated, I believe they had Saturday night fights. They were having them then on Saturday nights.
Mr. Griffin.
Do you recall--are you a fight fan?
Mr. Hansen.
I used to always watch Saturday night fights, and I know a few nights that I watched them from Saturday to Friday, I used to go down to a beer joint and watch the fights on every fight night, and I don't hardly miss a fight if I can help.
That and the Untouchables is about all I look at. If they were having fights on Saturday night, I may have left my job after I got off and went down to the place on Poydras Street. And if they were having the fights--if they haven't, I couldn't tell you what it was.
Mr. Griffin.
Let me just ask specifically if you recall seeing Little Lynn on Friday or Saturday?
Mr. Hansen.
No, sir.
Mr. Griffin.
Do you recall seeing Kathy Kay on Friday or Saturday?
Mr. Hansen.
I don't recall seeing any of them; no, sir.
Mr. Griffin.
Do you know Ralph Paul?
Mr. Hansen.
Ralph who?
Mr. Griffin.
Paul, Ruby's financial backer. Ralph Paul.
Mr. Hansen.
I am satisfied I have seen him, but I couldn't tell you what he looks like, and I wouldn't recognize him. I have heard of him, but as far as knowing him or ever having coffee or talking to him, not to my knowledge, no, sir.
Mr. Griffin.
One other thing I would like to do is, I am going to mark for identification a copy of the FBI interview report that they prepared after talking with you on November--
Mr. Hansen.
Can I read that?
Mr. Griffin.
I want to give it to you. I am going to mark it and I will hand it to you and you can read it.
Mr. Hansen.
All right.
Mr. Griffin.
It is a four-page report. It is numbered at the bottom pages 31, 32, 33, and 34, and I am going to mark on the top of the first page here, "T. M. Hansen, Jr., Deposition July 24, 1964, Exhibit No. 1."
Take your time and read it and if there are any additions or corrections that you want to make in there, feel free to make them.
Mr. Hansen.
This is a report that this fellow from Wisconsin took from me, this FBI man?
Mr. Griffin.
His name is Dallman.
Mr. Hansen.
Yes, he is a nice fellow.
Mr. Griffin.
While you are reading that, I will dictate for the record that I am also marking the diagram which Officer Hansen has drawn for us. "T. M. Hansen, Jr., Deposition July 24, 1964, Exhibit No. 2."
Mr. Hansen.
One thing I want to call to your attention. On this second page you asked me about his Jewish background and here he says in this statement, it says he considered Ruby to be a fairly emotional individual and recalled that on one occasion at the Silver Spur Club, Ruby hit a man who made a derogatory remark concerning his ethnic background.
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